@Concerned Citizen,
Olmert has political opponents that favor peace with Syria. His involvement in scandals came up even before his tentative feelers for peace with Syria ever did. So, lets not try and blame Olmert’s scandalous behavior on Hawks and “hardliners” as if there are no proper reason’s to have him ousted. Olmert declared a war with objectives, got his soldiers killed without obtaining any of his stated objectives, killed hundreds of Lebanese without obtaining any of his stated objectives, destroyed billions of dollars worth of property without gaining any of his stated objectives and one needs to push and old scandal in order to oust him? The man was on Sharon’s right hand when Israel decided to pull out of Gaza, was heavily involved in the pull-out and presided over a series of events in which the citizens of the country he is meant to protect are consistently under attack by missiles coming from the strip of land he vacated. Here is a very appropriate time to bring up those who oppose peace with Syria as these are the same people who opposed getting out of Gaza, for the very foreseeable consequences being lived by both Israelis and Palestinians today. The fact that Israel’s current PM is so easily tied to scandals, be they old or new, is a commentary on him and not his opponents.
I feel sorry for all the little people caught in the middle of this situation. The fact is that the Lebanese government, when there has been one, has not acted in the best interests of it people for decades. They didn’t stop the PLO from attacking Israel back in the late 70′s and 80′s thus forcing Israel to protect itself with a buffer zone. Lebanon again failed to control its means of war by allowing Hezbo to raid Israel time and again, forcing Israel tried to protect itself by raiding back. Now the Lebanese are again hearing saber rattling from Hezbo and do nothing but allow them to take control of another section of its capital. Nobody in Lebanon is being held accountable for their actions, not Hezbo, not the pro-West government, not Syria, not Iran and you want to get on Israel because it wants to hold its Prime Minister accountable for his actions?
I realize you are a concerned citizen but keep in mind there are concerns and citizenships of all kinds. Peace with Syria concerns citizens of another country, who quite frankly, do not want to go back to the old days when Syrian soldiers used to launch missiles at Israeli farmers on a daily basis. Syria has been a belligerent towards Israel for 60 years which is long before Israel conquered the heights. Since that time in ’67, the state of belligerency hasn’t ceased but the attacks have. That satisfies the concerns of this particular citizen.
